From the book: "The pilgrim's progress is both an interior journey, a spiritual exercise, and a physical journey toward an actual site imbued with a divine character. The condition of the pilgrim, in fact, comes remarkably close to that of the hero. By abandoning familiar, worldly surroundings, submitting (oneself) to physical hardship and sometimes considerable danger, paying homage or doing penance at a holy site, pilgrims, like heroes, know that they will return from their odyssey in some way renewed, or at least inwardly changed." 268 pages, price is clipped; there is a small mark from a label on the first blank page. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

PILGRIMS PILGRIMAGES RELIGION TRAVEK HOLY PLACES ADVENTURE